The notion of method has been in and out of fashion in language teaching research. At the same time methods have always been a central concept for the practical work of language teachers in class. The course gives an overview over major language teaching methods and approaches providing both practical demonstrations and theoretical background. It will cover topics such as:
The concepts of approach and method, historical aspects of teaching, the audio-lingual approach, the communicative approach / CLT, Task-based language teaching (PBLT), project-based language teaching (PBLT) or Network-based language teaching, using digital-tools (NBLT) as well as cooperative methods or CLIL.
Furthermore, we will take a look a teaching materials (text books, work books, etc.) and their teaching concepts, but also at different digital tools and how they can be used in the foreign language classroom.
Text book:
Richards, Jack C. / Rodgers, Theodore S. (2001). Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching, Cambridge: CUP.
- Dozent*in: Götz Schwab